Myth #1: Writing is Hard

Here's the myth: Writing is Hard!

Take a piece of paper and a pen...or sit down at your computer.

Write this down:

The last time I was absolutely furious was...

...and go on from there.

We've all had a time when we were furious. I'll bet if you gave yourself five minutes, you could list a number of circumstances that made you furious...how about the guy who cut you off in traffic on the way home from work yesterday, or the woman in front of you at the grocery store who insists that she rifle through her three inch stack of coupons because she just knows she has one for that box of macaroni.

You name it...we've all had times when we had a very strong reaction to something, and usually we tell several people about it. If you were to record yourself telling people, then type up the story, you will have written it.

Did you hear me? You just wrote something!

See...it's a myth.

But it is a myth that most people believe! I suspect that there is some kind of conspiracy out there that promotes that myth. Perhaps those who do make their living by writing are afraid of the competition. Or, it could be that if too many people figured out that it isn't that difficult to write they would have to give up their act of being completely exhausted at the end of eight hours and they only have a single paragraph to show for their efforts.

(Personally, I suspect they spent a whole lot of time surfing the internet, answering email, lurking on Facebook, or playing killer games of Spider Solitaire...but I'm not right there, so it will remain just a suspicion.)

Our job is to dispel that myth and prove to you that getting your book written isn't as hard as a lot of people make it sound.

You hear about the writers who slave away up in their attic garret eating nothing but a single red apple for days at time...oh, wait, that was Louisa May Alcott when she wrote Little Women. She really did write that great long book in a very shore period of time, and she did it up in her attic, and I do remember something about those red apples.

The point is, when you have something to write about and you have a direction, a blueprint, or a road map, it's actually pretty easy to get that book written. So please stop believing the myth that writing is hard. It's really as easy as talking to your friend over coffee.

Best,

Kathleen